NHL Man Games Lost, CHIP, and TMITT January 19, 2014

We report the numbers (Man Games Lost, Injured, Did Not Dress, and Suspended) that the teams themselves report in their media releases on game days. That said, the teams don’t report pristine data. A clear example is the ‘Man Games Lost’ numbers versus the individual player-by-player ‘Injured’ numbers they report. It’s obvious from Table 1 that the totals don’t agree.

Some teams provide ‘Injured’ data for their long-term-injured-reserve players, some don’t. In cases where they don’t, we estimate them. Some teams count an illness as an injury, but not a man game lost, or vice versa. The Detroit Red Wings (and many other teams) often report players as ‘Did Not Dress’ when it’s widely known the player is injured. These inconsistencies will persist without stricter regulation and oversight by the league on team reporting.

Below are the updated, official, team-reported man games lost totals by NHL teams for all games played up to January 19, 2014. In addition to our team data (Table 1) we provide individual skater (Table 2) and goalie (Table 3) man games lost and TMITT metrics.

Our CHIP and SHIP analysis is 99% complete at this time, see notes below. Our TMITT (Time Missed Impact To Team) metrics base the quality of a player to their average time on ice (ATOI). The TMITT-skater value, for example, rates the man games lost of all forwards and defensemen taking into account the average amount of minutes they play for their team each game. A higher TMITT number reflects a higher impact of missing players to the team.

Some notes for you to consider at this time

Our CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Player) and SHIP (Salary Hit of Injured Player) analysis is missing a dozen or so values (van Riemsdyk, Souray, others). This should be corrected in our next update on Tuesday.